Just a normal season, right? Las Vegas over-under lines for the A’s in spring training ranged between 86.5 and 88.5 wins, and they wound up right around there with 88. Well, maybe not so normal. Good …

Enough offseason chitchat. Baseball season and our annual Drumbeat prediction contest finally has arrived. We had a pretty good showing last year, with half our audience correctly forecasting the A’s …